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Teen Dies by Suicide After Becoming Obsessed With AI Chatbot

Teen Dies by Suicide After Becoming Obsessed With AI Chatbot

A Florida teen named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot, The New York Times reports.Per the NYT, the 14-year-old Setzer developed a close relationship with a chatbot designed to emulate "Game of Thrones" character Daenerys Targaryen, which was reportedly created without consent from HBO.As the ninth grader's relationship with the chatbot deepened, friends and family told the NYT, he grew increasingly withdrawn. He stopped finding joy in normal hobbies like Formula 1 racing and playing "Fortnite" with friends, and instead spent his free time with his AI character companion, which he called "Dany."…
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Microsoft Debuting AI-Powered Employees for Companies

Microsoft Debuting AI-Powered Employees for Companies

"Every organization will have a constellation of agents."Free AgentsMicrosoft is releasing a suite of autonomous AI models — or "agents" — that can serve as virtual employees for its customers.Not only that, the company is also giving users the ability to create autonomous agents of their own using its Copilot Studio. These can be tailored as needed, capable of working on your behalf, Microsoft claims, or assisting in your workflow.The products, which were first announced in May, represent Microsoft planting a flag in the world of AI agents, which are supposed to be more self-sufficient than conventional models and are…
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California’s governor blocked landmark AI safety laws. Here’s why it’s such a key ruling for the future of AI worldwide

California’s governor blocked landmark AI safety laws. Here’s why it’s such a key ruling for the future of AI worldwide

In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly shaping the future, California has found itself at a critical juncture. The US state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, recently blocked a key AI safety bill aimed at tightening regulations on generative AI development. The Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (SB 1047) was seen by many as a necessary safeguard on the technology’s development. Generative AI covers systems that produce new content in text, video, images and music – often in response to questions, or “prompts”, by a user. But Newsom said the bill risked “curtailing the very innovation…
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Claude AI tool can now carry out jobs like filling forms and booking trips, says creator

An artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon and Google says it has created an AI agent that can carry out tasks on the computer such as moving a mouse cursor and typing text.US company Anthropic said its AI model, called Claude, could now perform computing tasks including filling out forms, planning an outing and building a website.Autonomous AI agents are viewed by tech firms and investors as a potentially lucrative avenue of development for a technology whose capabilities have stunned users but can cost billions of dollars to build and operate.Anthropic, a competitor to ChatGPT owner OpenAI, is making the…
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Applying AI to satellite manufacturing

Applying AI to satellite manufacturing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Companies are proceeding cautiously in applying artificial intelligence to satellite manufacturing. Blue Canyon Technologies, for example, wants to better understand how AI can contribute to manufacturing without jeopardizing cybersecurity. “When you’re trying to teach an AI machine, where does your data go,” Chris Winslett, Blue Canyon Technologies general manager, asked at the Satellite Innovation conference here. “There’s also a concern about pulling in data from external applications. Where do they come from?” Still, AI can assist in the engineering design process for Blue Canyon, a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary. “You want to be able to use AI…
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It’s Now Illegal to Post Fake AI-Generated Product Reviews by People Who Don’t Exist

It’s Now Illegal to Post Fake AI-Generated Product Reviews by People Who Don’t Exist

It's official.Cleaning UpIt's officially illegal to publish fake, AI-generated product reviews.Sweeping changes to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines aimed at cleaning up the polluted, confusing world of online product reviews went into effect on Monday, meaning the federal agency is now allowed to levy civil penalties against bad actors who knowingly post product reviews and testimonials deemed misleading to American consumers.The new guidelines are expansive, prohibiting sleazy businesses from engaging in a wide array of abusive tactics. That list includes using generative AI tools to whip up fake testimonials or product review articles — bonus points if those reviews are…
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Cohere adds vision to its RAG search capabilities

Cohere adds vision to its RAG search capabilities

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Cohere has added multimodal embeddings to its search model, allowing users to deploy images to RAG-style enterprise search.  Embed 3, which emerged last year, uses embedding models that transform data into numerical representations. Embeddings have become crucial in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) because enterprises can make embeddings of their documents that the model can then compare to get the information requested by the prompt.  Your search can see now.We're excited to release fully multimodal embeddings for folks to start building with!…
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Anthropic’s Latest Claude Lets AI Take Control of Your Entire PC

Anthropic’s Latest Claude Lets AI Take Control of Your Entire PC

Sound safe to you?DesktopGPTIf for some reason you wanted to hand over total control of your personal computer to an AI model, you can now do that with Anthropic.The Amazon-backed OpenAI competitor released a new version of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model on Tuesday, which is capable of a bunch of fundamental tasks on your desktop, such as inputting keystrokes and mouse clicks that allow it to use potentially any applications you have installed."I think we're going to enter into a new era where a model can use all of the tools that you use as a person to get tasks…
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Intern Fired by TikTok Owner for Sabotaging Its AI Model

Intern Fired by TikTok Owner for Sabotaging Its AI Model

"The intern involved maliciously interfered with the model training tasks..."Internal AffairsByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, fired an intern who apparently screwed with the company's artificial intelligence projects.As Ars Technica and other outlets report, the social media firm has confirmed that the unnamed commercial team intern was terminated in August after he messed with ByteDance AI models."The intern involved maliciously interfered with the model training tasks of the commercial technology team's research project," the company said in a statement on its content platform Toutiao, "but it did not affect the formal commercial projects and online business, nor did it involve…
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